<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Congratulations, Jim, for this mighty work ! We are eager to read it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">I happen to participate today in a meeting about the history of computing in Nancy. This local saga started with a visit of Norbert Wiener in 1947 and the arrival of an IBM 604 a few years later. I presented an early ad for this machine (attached), stressing that it simply said "Electronic Calculator" for an obvious reason: There was no other on the market.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Best,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Pierre</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"> </span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">Pierre Mounier-Kuhn</span><br><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">CNRS & Sorbonne Université</span><br><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;">https://cnrs.academia.edu/PierreMounierKuhn</span></div><div><br></div><img src="cid:f93bccdffce9c99f7db5df81f10c67bcad80def4@zimbra" data-mce-src="cid:f93bccdffce9c99f7db5df81f10c67bcad80def4@zimbra"><br><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"></span><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>De: </b>"Ian S. King" <isking@uw.edu><br><b>À: </b>"Barbara B Walker" <bbwalker@unr.edu><br><b>Cc: </b>"members" <members@sigcis.org><br><b>Envoyé: </b>Mardi 15 Janvier 2019 00:34:05<br><b>Objet: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] IBM History</div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr">I too am delighted by this publication. I've had numerous conversations with some of the former Sindelfingen team and they were quite proud of Germany's contributions to computing. I'm quite interested to read about your research regarding the early era of IBM's precursors. -- Ian </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 2:08 PM Barbara B Walker <<a href="mailto:bbwalker@unr.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:bbwalker@unr.edu">bbwalker@unr.edu</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-4504159605040705618WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Warmest congratulations, Jim!!! I am really looking forward to reading this, have been waiting with great interest for its arrival.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Best, Barbara<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" data-mce-style="color: black;">Barbara Walker</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Associate Professor<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Department of History/308<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">University of Nevada, Reno<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Reno NV 89557<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Office phone: 775-784-4303<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Website: <a href="https://www.unr.edu/history/history-people/barbara-walker" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://www.unr.edu/history/history-people/barbara-walker"> <span style="color: #0563c1;" data-mce-style="color: #0563c1;">https://www.unr.edu/history/history-people/barbara-walker</span></a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-top: 1pt solid #b5c4df; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" data-mce-style="border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-top: 1pt solid #b5c4df; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">From: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>> on behalf of James Cortada <<a href="mailto:jcortada@umn.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:jcortada@umn.edu">jcortada@umn.edu</a>><br> <b>Date: </b>Monday, January 14, 2019 at 8:00 AM<br> <b>To: </b>sigcis <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>><br> <b>Subject: </b>[SIGCIS-Members] IBM History<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">I am delighted to inform you that my book IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon will be published by MIT Press in early March. As many of you already know, this history goes from the 1880s to the present and represents decades of research on the managerial, technological, economic, and business issues you and I study. MIT Press is offering a 30% discount on orders received before March 10th. To take advantage of that use Code IBM30 and order from <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2FMitpress.mit.edu&data=01%7C01%7Cbbwalker%40unr.edu%7Cb3e300a86dcb4594897608d67a3976ac%7C523b4bfc0ebd4c03b2b96f6a17fd31d8%7C1&sdata=v3RMNMzgSro%2FyQOaFM9CPC8jYkX4E4KGGLqzZINbZsw%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2FMitpress.mit.edu&data=01%7C01%7Cbbwalker%40unr.edu%7Cb3e300a86dcb4594897608d67a3976ac%7C523b4bfc0ebd4c03b2b96f6a17fd31d8%7C1&sdata=v3RMNMzgSro%2FyQOaFM9CPC8jYkX4E4KGGLqzZINbZsw%3D&reserved=0"> Mitpress.mit.edu</a>. I want to publicly thank the many dozens of you who have either helped, encouraged, or cajoled me into writing this large book. Regards, Jim <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all"> <u></u><u></u></p><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">James W. Cortada<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Senior Research Fellow<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Charles Babbage Institute<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">University of Minnesota<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:jcortada@umn.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:jcortada@umn.edu">jcortada@umn.edu</a><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">608-274-6382<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br> This email is relayed from members at <a href="http://sigcis.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://sigcis.org">sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. 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King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate<br><a href="http://ischool.uw.edu" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://ischool.uw.edu">The Information School</a></div><div>Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens</div><br><div>Principal Investigator, "<span style="font-size: 12.8px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12.8px;">Reflections on Early Computing and Social Change", UW IRB #42619</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Archivist, <a href="http://tribunalvoices.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://tribunalvoices.org">Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal</a> </div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://vsdesign.org" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://vsdesign.org">Value Sensitive Design Research Lab</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br>University of Washington<br><br><span color="#424242" style="color: #424242;" data-mce-style="color: #424242;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><span face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."</span><span face="courier new, monospace" style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'courier new', monospace;"> </span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. 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